From Guatemala to Holland to Singapore: this year’s winners of the “Oscars” for designers come from all over the world to receive the prize in Helsingor. The Index Award: Design to Improve Life is widely recognized as the most important and prestigious design award in the world. For the past ten years, an international jury has …
One of Europe’s largest online fashion retailers, Zalando SE, is expanding their technology operations internationally by opening a new technology hub in Helsinki. On August 27th they welcomed their new local team to the company. By Dorte Primdahl Møberg Focusing on the development of innovative customer-facing products, such as fashion apps, Zalando aims to boost …
Marius Klausen is the Product Manager and co-founder of AIRTAME. His career as a successful entrepreneur had already started when he was 19. Story and photos by Josefine Maria Hansen AIRTAME’s office is on the second floor through a courtyard on a street outside the city of Copenhagen. I will be meeting with Marius Klausen, …
When a knee injury forced footballer Philip Haglund to miss a season for football club IFK Gothenburg, he knew he had to do something different during his time for recuperation. Haglund chanced upon an article that talked about how as a society we were moving away from cash-based transactions to paperless or digital money. Haglund …
The Stockholm-based e-commerce platform Tictail raised close to 190 million SEK last week from a clutch of existing and new investors. In what can be dubbed as the one of the largest venture deals this year for the Nordic Startup community, Swedish e-commerce major Tictail has just closed a financing round of $ 22 million, …
What it was doing on traffic information, Google has now gone on to provide similar data w to provide information on the busiest times for a local business near you. According to Google, the idea is to provide consumers with information that would help them avoid long queues and plan out the best time to …
Last week, leading games VC London Venture Partners (“LVP”) and Klang Games signed an investment agreement to back the gaming company’s future projects, including the upcoming mobile and tablet game, ReRunners. LVP will not only be financially investing in the game developer but also offering valuable knowledge of publishing within the gaming industry. Oddur Magnússon, Developer and …
Flic is a wireless shortcut button that allows you to perform smart actions on your phone with a simple click. Flic is a Swedish startup that is making life even more simple for smart phone users. With a simple click of a Flic button, users have access to a variety of different functions. These include …
Crypho is a privately-held Norwegian company that builds encrypted real-time communications solutions for the web. I have heard several times the words security, hacker, internet not safe anymore, unsafe data transfer, virus and antivirus, unknown IP, etc, etc. and etc. again. And when I was beginning to feel a bit uncomfortable, Crypho and the name …
When a new venture shakes up the way an entire global market does business, the question arises: They have proven that things can be done differently so what are they going to do about it? The Norwegian startup Xeneta has a vision for the future of the global freight trade market, and there are a …
